The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-18
BUDGET FROM BEAVER.
The Prospects On the Ranch
and the Range.
MOST DELIGHTFUL WEATHER.
Cattle Feed Drying Up-COntempIated
ReserYoirs-Miscella
News Paragraphs.

Parowan, in Beaver or Iron Counties
and not more than on inch of snow has
covered the ground in the two storms
that we have had this fall. 1t is re
marked by every old resident, that
this fail is the most pleasant and sum-
mer-like they have witnessed or known
in Utah for the past thirty-fve years
The roads from Fillmore to Beaver
| ParUwan to Cedar City; across the
Black Ridge, to Silver Reef and st.
George, have been hard, dry and dusty
for the last two months.
In consequence of the excessive
drouth throughout the county this
summer and fall, and particularly in the
valley west of Minersville, the Ryan q
Ream Cattle Company shipped nineteen
carloads of cattle from Milford, Utah,
at one shipment, in September last,
to Wyoming and Omaha, the majOrity
being cows.
Notwithstanding the extensive area
OF the range in these three counties,
stockmen say the grass contains no nu-
triment for stock cattle, and weeks ago,
COWS that "got down" in the lower part
of The county, in the vicinity of Pine
N1OfO. w OIL w all dllcI, DIdCh NUN;
Antelope Springs and the Murdoch
to be helped up in great many in
stances, brought to feed corrals and
strengthened for the winter, so that
The range stock raisers say this is the
worst they ever saw in this district.
The majority of the extensive sheep
herds owned in this city, are yet in the
mountains east, together with James
Whittaker's herd of some 5000 head.
These are in the vicinity of Mount Bailey
and Belknap, and south and west of Put
fer Lake. The Low Brothers, of this city,
interested with Presley Denny, drove
their cattle (including some thorough
bred q Noways) up into the mountains
1n June last, from their old ranch, Buck
skin Valley, which is in the northeast
part of Parowan Valley and about
twenty miles from Beaver City, thereby
taking the advantage and benefit Of the
mountain range around Britt's Mea-
dows, and the good feed,
In ten thousand acres and WOO lands green,
That Uncle Sam has never yet seen;
and their cattle just driven out show
their summer keeping in the mountains.
AS to the weather, ore extreme gen.
orally follows another, and if the winter
turns out as anticipated. there will be
from one-third to one-half loss in stock
before the LIST of May next.
The last Of the three Of McDonough
Il Company's reservoirs; two at the
head of South Greek, and the one
that four scrapers. one plow, four
teams and elk men have been working
on for the past four weeks, in Lees
Springs Canyon, will be completed in &
few days, and the company will be able
to hold back during the months of
April, May and June, sufficient of the
surplus waters of South Creek, that has
gone to waste like torrent for the past
twenty years, adding to, and helping
the Beaver River to damage and wash
away the hundreds of acres of the best
farming land between this and Adams
vile, and wasting itself between Black
Rock and the Sewer Lake, to irrigate
section or more of the best land in
Parowan Valley, lying Immediately
and the Mule Point.
The citizens of Beaver City, seem to
have been aroused by the scarcity of
water during the past season to the
necessity and benefits of reservoirs, and
have done the work first land the talk
in the making of a dam
on Britt's Meadows sufficient to hold
the waters of Beaver River back at that
point till needed, so as to benefit the
commu i,y generally in June and July
Minersvilln, which by right of prior
use and appropriation of the waters of
Beaver River, dates back 70 1859. has
suffered for the lack of irrigahug water
seven years out of ten since its settle
ment, in consequence Of which the cit
liens there built dam few rods east
of the bridge, years ago, for the pur-
poses of q reservoir, ribbed with cedar
posts, and ballasted with plenty of
rock and gravel, and Colonel Dupax
wanting the location for mill site, and
finding it public United States land,
made entry of the same under pre-
right and the citizens lost
through thoughtlessness or lack
of legal advice their labor, which
must have cost them over $1,000
Not discouraged by their failure
and loss, they commenced again this
year, by purchasing William j. Jones
farm and others east of the Rocky
Ford" some five miles on the river
from MinersYille, and there at the Fore,
which is universally said to be the best
location for reservoir IN this valley !
they intend to build dam, that when |
will hoid the water of Il 9 !
river back for mile and half, FORM |
ing lake that length northeast and
TWO hundred yards TO half mile wide. |
The Twitchell Brothers & Sons have |
also this summer built a solid dam |
across and at the head waters of In |
iisn Creek, which, when completed, |
will enable them to irrigate double the |
quantity of land heretofore.
Puffer Lake, sheet of water next in |
size and quantity to Panguitch Lake,
ocated at the head of our Beaver River,
some twenty miles east of here, has been
AIKEN charge of during the fall by Mr..
). G. Woodhouse, Jr., our post
master and rumor says G W.
Zane. Esq, assistant deputy United
states proset uting attorney for this dis
.riet, and w. l.. Cook, official reporter,
Ire also financially investing and in
crested therein. The object of damming
lp the lake, is said to be for millsite
,urooses; good and substantial dam
laving been put up, with fume outlet
ufhcient to hold the water back TIL |
une and July, when SO much needed,
o the height of twenty feet above the
highest overflow mark of the lake, and